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Visitors inspect parts of the work "Ghost Keeping" by Romanian-born artist Istvan Csakany during a preview of the Documenta fair for contemporary art in Kassel. The exhibition of modern and contemporary art takes place every five years.

Pakistani police officers check the wreckage of a bus that exploded, killing several people, when a bomb that officials suspect was planted inside the vehicle went off on the outskirts of Peshawar. The bus was carrying government employees and other civilians in northwestern Pakistan when it exploded Friday, a reminder of the continued militant threat despite a significant drop in violence over the past year, officials said.

Supporters of Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal along with other political parties participate in a mass protest rally in Katmandu. Thousands of opposition supporters gathered in the capital to demand that Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai resign.

A young gypsy woman rides her horse in the River Eden before the Appleby Horse Fair in Appleby. The event has existed under the protection of a charter granted by King James II since 1685 and is one of the key gathering points for various gypsy communities.

Chelsea pensioners -- British veterans -- sit as an officer shows his socks during the annual Founder's Day Parade at the Royal Chelsea Hospital. The In-pensioners at the Royal Chelsea Hospital were inspected by the countess of Wessex during Founder's Day. The hospital has been caring for British veterans since it was founded by King Charles II in 1682 and is currently home to some 300 pensioners all of whom have served in the British army and are over 65 years of age. All participants in the parade wear sprigs of oak leaves to commemorate the escape of the future King Charles II after defeat in a 1651 battle by hiding in the Royal Oak.

A Pakistani oil tanker driver bathes next to his tanker, which was used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan and is parked in a compound. U.S. negotiators pushing Pakistan to allow NATO troop supply convoys to resume to neighboring Afghanistan.

The space shuttle Enterprise passes lower Manhattan and the under-construction One World Trade Center as it makes the final leg of its journey by barge to its new home on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. NASA ended its shuttle program last year.

Afghan villagers gather at a house destroyed in an apparent NATO raid in Logar province, south of Kabul. Afghan officials and residents say a predawn NATO airstrike aimed at militants in eastern Afghanistan killed civilians celebrating a wedding, including women and children.

People living close to the Arabian Sea coast use sand bags in an attempt to protect their house from heavy waves in the Kerala state of Kochi, India. The southwest monsoon, crucial for India's agriculture, hit Kerala on Tuesday, according to the Indian Meteorological Department.

A Palestinian throws stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes at the entrance to Ofer prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday following a demonstration to mark "Naksa Day," the 44th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War.

Rescuers stand at the site of a rock slide that blocked the tracks of the Gotthard railways near Gurtnellen, Switzerland on Tuesday. Two people who worked on the track were injured and one is reported to be buried under the rocks.

Members of a Chinese honor guard prepare for the arrival of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov on Tuesday at the Beijing Capital International Airport. Karimov was scheduled to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.

Queen Elizabeth II travels by carriage to Buckingham Palace with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, during the procession of the royal family. For only the second time in its history, the U.K. celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of a monarch.

Mike, left, and Bob Bryan of the U.S. celebrate their point in the men's doubles quarter final match against Olivier Marach of Austria and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris' Roland Garros stadium.

Velo bike designer Dieter "Didi" Senft sits on a tricycle he created that rolls on 100 soccer balls. The 60-year-old German has invented five bike constructions, among them three Guinness-record winners.

A cyclist passes a barricade by coal miners that blocks a road in La Vid, Leon, Spain. The miners are protesting cuts of public aid to the sector, which trade unions say will lead to the inevitable closure of mines in the country.

Rescue workers search for bodies at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.

A Palestinian child holds a bag with cheese during a walk through the rubble of a cheese factory in Al Zaiton. Israel bombed two targets in the northern Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel. A military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said the targets were a workshop used for manufacturing weapons and a tunnel dug by militants. Palestinian witnesses countered that it was a cheese and dairy factory on the southeastern outskirts of Gaza City that was hit.

Royal supporters gather on the mall outside Buckingham Palace in preparation for the Queen's Jubilee concert in London. A chain of more than 4,200 beacons began to flare across the globe Monday to mark Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee, with the last to be lit by the monarch at a star-studded concert at the palace.

An exiled Tibetan man carries a portrait of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on the 15th day of the Tibetan Buddhist holy month of Sa Ka Dawa in Dharmsala. Tibetans believe that virtuous actions are multiplied on this full-moon day that commemorates Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death.

Egret chicks and a parent bird sit in their nest on the bank of the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati City, India. During this season, of the year hundreds of egrets built their nests in the trees available in the highly populated Panbazar area, which is a major business centre of the city. With the expansion of the city and fast-growing high-rise buildings, many trees of the area have been cut down, and as a result, more and more egrets are losing their breeding habitats.

Zoology professor Ratul Rajkhowa of Cotton College in India holds a dead spider of the alleged species that killed two people in the northeastern state of Assam. Panicked villagers there complained of an invasion of giant biting spiders that resemble tarantulas but are unknown to local specialists. Authorities have swung into action by fogging and spraying insecticides in the area, and a team of scientists have been dispatched to investigate.

People take part in a a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong held to mark the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, are believed to have died when the government sent in tanks and soldiers to clear Tiananmen Square, bringing a violent end to six weeks of pro-democracy protests.

The Week in Pictures | June 4 – 10, 2012

In the news, tragic images out of Pakistan as emergency workers check the wreckage from a bus explosion that killed several people in northwestern Pakistan on Friday. Workers searched for bodies at the site of a plane crash in Nigeria, where a passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Lagos; and Spanish riot police fire tear gas to disperse a miner’s demonstration in Vega del Rey. Spanish coal miners are staging a nationwide strike action organized by unions opposed to subsidy reductions.

Fans of Poland’s national football team wave from a train in Wroclaw a few hours before the opening match of the Euro 2012 football championships in Warsaw; a young gypsy woman rides her horse in the River Eden before the Appleby Horse Fair in England, a key event for various gypsy communities; and a blue dragonfly rests on a reed at the edge of a small lake near Briesen, Germany.

On the sports front, the Stanley Cup Final is underway with the Los Angeles Kings seeking their first title in franchise history. See gallery. Over in Norway, young spectators reach out to Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt upon his 100m win in Oslo; Spain’s Rafael Nadal is in the swing of things at the French Open; and Belmont Stakes hopeful Street Life trains at Belmont Park for Saturday’s race.

The space shuttle Enterprise passed Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as it makes the final leg of its journey by barge to its new home on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum; French President Francois Hollande shook hands with WWII veterans during a ceremony commemorating the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France.

Elsewhere, people take part in a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong held to mark the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989; a partial lunar eclipse is seen through a TV tower in Sapporo, Japan; and an exiled Tibetan man carries a portrait of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on the 15th day of the Tibetan Buddhist holy month of Sa Ka Dawa in Dharmsala.